Americas

Democracy and multilateralism are under siege around the world. Global levels of freedom declined annually over the past 11 years and there has been a frightening increase in populism in recent years. On the multilateral front,...

Despite Donald Trump’s electoral win, many of the foreign policy positions put forward by his administration, and while on the campaign trail, are not only antithetical to those enshrined in American policy since the end of World...

Representatives from the United Nations and Amnesty International have travelled to Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to examine and investigate charges of mistreatment of protesters by local police. Testimonies from...

Maintaining ties and supporting family back home has long been a focus of diaspora communities located in the United States. A diaspora community is one that continues to sustain a strong sense of collective identity, in spite...

In 2015, more than three people a week were killed for protesting land theft and the development of ecologically destructive industries, such as mining, agribusiness, damming, and logging. In 2014, 116 environmental activists...

Though the crisis happily has been averted, at least for the moment, Venezuela's beer woes are a manifestation of the larger and far more serious economic and social issues confronting the country. Venezuela is running out of...

U.S.-Brazil relations have a long and complicated history. The visit of Brazilian President Rousseff to Washington, DC June 29–30 is a positive step forward for bilateral relations after the chill the NSA spying disclosures...

In 2009, President Obama outlined a vision of sending 100,000 Americans to China for study abroad programs by 2014. This vision would require a robust public-private exchange between the United States and Chinese governments, in...